Trying to find a book? Here is a list of authors and who they write for. Please do not get caught up on the level but instead find a book that interests you as a reader. You can learn something from any kind of book. (Special thanks to Mrs. Herning for putting this list together) ((Page updated on May 26, 2009))
Level T
Karen Hesse - A Light in the Storm
Marion Dane Bauer - An Early Winter
Ronald Dahl - Danny Champion of the World
Will Hobbs - Wild Man Island
Jane Bachanan - Gratefully Yours
Gary Paulsen - Mr. Tucket
Joseph Bruchac - The Arrow Over the Door
Theodore Taylor - The Boy Who Could Fly...
Cynthia Rylant - The Islander
C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Mildred D. Taylor - The Well
Dan Gutman - Abner & Me, Jackie & Me, Mickey & Me, The Million Dollar Goal, The Million Dollar Kick, etc
Elizabeth George Speare - The Sign of the Beaver
Bill Wallace - Blackwater Swamp, Ferret in the Bedroo, Lizards in the Fridge, Never Say Quit
Karen Cushman - Rodzina
Level U
Gary Paulsen (Wilderness Adventures)
Phyllis Naylor (girl adventure)
Cynthia Voigt (girl)
Susan Cooper (mystery)
Jerry Spinelli (kid adventure) - Wringer, Report to the Principal's Office
Bobbie Kalman (geography)
Rachel Field (Hitty is the title--- about a doll through history)
George Sullivan ( In the Line of Fire) war story about women spies
Bill Wallace (boy adventure) - Buffalo Gal, Journey Into Terror, Red Dog
Jean Craighead George (series of 3 books about Julie of the Wolves as well as My Side of the Mountain)
Lois Lowry (war stories)
Phillip Steele
Jane Yolen
Kate DiCamillo (Tale of Despereaux)
Elisa Carbone - Blood on the River: James Town 1607
Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
Ronald Dahl - The BFG
Betsy Byars - The Summer of the Swans
Lisa Carbone - Stealing Freedom
Kenneth Oppel - Silverwing
Barbara Brooks Wallace - Cousins In the Castle, Peppermints in the Parlor, The Perils of Peppermints
Jeanne DuPrau - The City of Ember
Linda Sue Park - A Single Shard
Level V
Lewis Carroll (Alice in wonderland)
Sharon Creech - The Wanderer
Avi -
J.K. Rowling ( Harry Potter series)
Jane Cutler (war stories---possibly girl)
Fred Gipson (Old Yeller)
The Lemony Snicket Series -
Peter Lerangis (Watchers series)
Kevin Henkes - Words of Stone
Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder
Bill Wallace - Beauty, The Final Freedom, The Biggest Klutz in Kifth Grade
Karen Hesse - The Music of Dolphins
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea
Level W
Johanna Hurwitz (Anne Frank story)
Jean Fritz - Once Upon a Marigold
Lawrence Yep (Dragon stories)
Mary Ann Fraser (I Am A Star: Child of the Holocaust)
Joan Lowery Nixon - A Family Apart
Bonnie Bryant
Marty Crisp ( Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg)
Judy Blume
Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion, The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
Will Hobbs - Leaving Protection
Louise Erdrich - The Game of Silence
Bill Wallace - Danger in Quicksand Swamp
Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
Marion Dane Bauer - Face to Face
Margaret Haddix - Among the Hidden
Level X
Will Osborne (mysteries)
Scott O’Dell (Pirate)
Armstrong Perry (Call it Courage)
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
Clinton Cox ( Forgotten Heros, The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers)
Karen Cushman (girl)
Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows)
Laurie Halse Anderson - Fever 1793
Level Y
Anne Frank ( her story)
Jack London (northern stories)
Level Z
George Orwell (Animal Farm)
Carolyn Meyer (Doomed Queen)
Mark Twain
J.R.R Tolkien (the Hobbit series)
Anita Lober (War Stories)
Michelle Paver - Wolf Brother...
Trying to find a book? Here is a list of authors and who they write for. Please do not get caught up on the level but instead find a book that interests you as a reader. You can learn something from any kind of book. (Special thanks to Mrs. Herning for putting this list together) ((Page updated on May 26, 2009))
http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/forparents/tp/summer_reading.htm
Level T
Karen Hesse - A Light in the Storm
Marion Dane Bauer - An Early Winter
Ronald Dahl - Danny Champion of the World
Will Hobbs - Wild Man Island
Jane Bachanan - Gratefully Yours
Gary Paulsen - Mr. Tucket
Joseph Bruchac - The Arrow Over the Door
Theodore Taylor - The Boy Who Could Fly...
Cynthia Rylant - The Islander
C.S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Mildred D. Taylor - The Well
Dan Gutman - Abner & Me, Jackie & Me, Mickey & Me, The Million Dollar Goal, The Million Dollar Kick, etc
Elizabeth George Speare - The Sign of the Beaver
Bill Wallace - Blackwater Swamp, Ferret in the Bedroo, Lizards in the Fridge, Never Say Quit
Karen Cushman - Rodzina
Level U
Gary Paulsen (Wilderness Adventures)
Phyllis Naylor (girl adventure)
Cynthia Voigt (girl)
Susan Cooper (mystery)
Jerry Spinelli (kid adventure) - Wringer, Report to the Principal's Office
Bobbie Kalman (geography)
Rachel Field (Hitty is the title--- about a doll through history)
George Sullivan ( In the Line of Fire) war story about women spies
Bill Wallace (boy adventure) - Buffalo Gal, Journey Into Terror, Red Dog
Jean Craighead George (series of 3 books about Julie of the Wolves as well as My Side of the Mountain)
Lois Lowry (war stories)
Phillip Steele
Jane Yolen
Kate DiCamillo (Tale of Despereaux)
Elisa Carbone - Blood on the River: James Town 1607
Gail Carson Levine - Ella Enchanted
Ronald Dahl - The BFG
Betsy Byars - The Summer of the Swans
Lisa Carbone - Stealing Freedom
Kenneth Oppel - Silverwing
Barbara Brooks Wallace - Cousins In the Castle, Peppermints in the Parlor, The Perils of Peppermints
Jeanne DuPrau - The City of Ember
Linda Sue Park - A Single Shard
Level V
Lewis Carroll (Alice in wonderland)
Sharon Creech - The Wanderer
Avi -
J.K. Rowling ( Harry Potter series)
Jane Cutler (war stories---possibly girl)
Fred Gipson (Old Yeller)
The Lemony Snicket Series -
Peter Lerangis (Watchers series)
Kevin Henkes - Words of Stone
Richard Peck - A Year Down Yonder
Bill Wallace - Beauty, The Final Freedom, The Biggest Klutz in Kifth Grade
Karen Hesse - The Music of Dolphins
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea
Level W
Johanna Hurwitz (Anne Frank story)
Jean Fritz - Once Upon a Marigold
Lawrence Yep (Dragon stories)
Mary Ann Fraser (I Am A Star: Child of the Holocaust)
Joan Lowery Nixon - A Family Apart
Bonnie Bryant
Marty Crisp ( Private Captain: A Story of Gettysburg)
Judy Blume
Nancy Farmer - The House of the Scorpion, The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm
Carl Hiaasen - Hoot
Will Hobbs - Leaving Protection
Louise Erdrich - The Game of Silence
Bill Wallace - Danger in Quicksand Swamp
Jerry Spinelli - Maniac Magee
Marion Dane Bauer - Face to Face
Margaret Haddix - Among the Hidden
Level X
Will Osborne (mysteries)
Scott O’Dell (Pirate)
Armstrong Perry (Call it Courage)
Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising
Clinton Cox ( Forgotten Heros, The Story of the Buffalo Soldiers)
Karen Cushman (girl)
Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows)
Laurie Halse Anderson - Fever 1793
Level Y
Anne Frank ( her story)
Jack London (northern stories)
Level Z
George Orwell (Animal Farm)
Carolyn Meyer (Doomed Queen)
Mark Twain
J.R.R Tolkien (the Hobbit series)
Anita Lober (War Stories)
Michelle Paver - Wolf Brother...